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SALT LAKE CITY.
Mormon Republican Convention-Election of a United States Senator Mormon Conference.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 6.—The Mormon Republican Convention, in session last even-ing in this city, elected Frank Fuller and Thomas Fitch delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, and George A. Smith and William Jennings alternates. The reso-lutions deprecate the course of many of the Federal officers in Utah, but express confidence that the administration will relieve the people from the oppressions so long and patiently borne, and say that no portion of the people should be deprived of a voice in the election of those who execute the laws; that the territorial system is to prepare the people for self-government: and not to rob them of it, and it is the duty of the Repub-lican party to see that Utah is restored to her national rights.
The Senate failing to elect a United States Senator, both Houses to-day met in joint convention and elected Thos. Filch on the first ballot.
Prominent signers to the call for a Demo-cratic Convention assert that their purpose is soley national, and they sustain Judge Mc-Kean l and oppose the admission of Utah as a State.
The annual Conference of the Mormon church began this morning. There was a great crowd. The speakers gloried in the progress of the Mormon church, which could not be retarded by the combined efforts of all the existing powers. They said that every President, judge, officer and priest opposed to the Mormans, fell by the chasten-ing hand of God,

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SALT LAKE CITY.
Mormon Republican Convention-Election of a United States Senator Mormon Conference.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 6.—The Mormon Republican Convention, in session last even-ing in this city, elected Frank Fuller and Thomas Fitch delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, and George A. Smith and William Jennings alternates. The reso-lutions deprecate the course of many of the Federal officers in Utah, but express confidence that the administration will relieve the people from the oppressions so long and patiently borne, and say that no portion of the people should be deprived of a voice in the election of those who execute the laws; that the territorial system is to prepare the people for self-government: and not to rob them of it, and it is the duty of the Repub-lican party to see that Utah is restored to her national rights.
The Senate failing to elect a United States Senator, both Houses to-day met in joint convention and elected Thos. Filch on the first ballot.
Prominent signers to the call for a Demo-cratic Convention assert that their purpose is soley national, and they sustain Judge Mc-Kean l and oppose the admission of Utah as a State.
The annual Conference of the Mormon church began this morning. There was a great crowd. The speakers gloried in the progress of the Mormon church, which could not be retarded by the combined efforts of all the existing powers. They said that every President, judge, officer and priest opposed to the Mormans, fell by the chasten-ing hand of God,